Here I am in Buenos Aires, city of Borges, Trotskyism, and psychoanalysis, where Deleuze is a beer.

Figure Writing Reflected in a mirror

[dumbest guy to ever live]: Ontologically,

lo queremos todo

“Complex” does not mean “complicated”, but rather “multiple”. And Foucault loves complex strategic situations. Every strategic situation is complex. I can only will within a complex strategic situation.

🔴 Enviamos alerta masiva a móviles por aviso de lluvias en Mazarrón. Se ruega máxima prudencia y no circular por las cercanías de la Rambla de las Moreras y Urbanización Camposol.

“If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.” — Virgil, The Aeneid

Reading in bed with a dog and a deer, 1927

Simone Weil worked in a manufacturing factory. Spinoza grinded lenses. Hegel struggled as a freelance tutor. Edith Stein wrote 3 separate Habilitations and still couldn't find work. Wittgenstein taught elementary school. Leibniz was a librarian. There is still hope friends ...

Vértigos que se abren ante nuestros ojos despiertos: son tan profundos como los horizontes que se alejan, tan dolorosos como las promesas incumplidas, tan desesperantes como los juramentos que violan nuestros mejores amigos

Just as nobody is born social, nobody is born reasonable. Reasonable is like social, it is a becoming. And the problem of ethics will perhaps be how to make it so that man becomes reasonable. But not at all.

Who is this Other? Why this Other? What is the need for this Other?

Life is beautiful when you pay attention.

Ao fio anedótico disto: no 06/06/2004, 60 aniversário do Desembarque da Normandia, Ratzinger, que ainda não era Papa, publicou este artigo (na tradução para o inglês: “In Search of Freedom; Against Reason Fallen Ill and Religion Abused”) onde, entre outras coisas, ataca Derrida.

La mejor idea sobre cualquier cosa está perdida en algún párrafo de una novela larga.

Leisure, the basis of culture

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In grad school, I submitted a seminar paper that mistakenly included a blank page between pages 12 and 13. The prof wrote on the blank page "best page so far." It was their only comment.